Katie found herself working at health and fitness centre, Equinox, and is now suing the company over claims that her former boss there sexually harrassed her. Reportedly, the gym manager took Katie out to fancy restaurants and plied her with drinks as part of the 'interview process', which she claims she hadn't realised was anything out of the ordinary because she wasn't familiar with the American hiring process.

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Shortly after she began employment, her boss apparently began to shower her with gifts and is said to have insisted that he pay for her regular daily expenses, such as petrol. Katie claims that she eventually gave-in to his sexual advances; as she was "in an intoxicated state she felt as if she had no choice to succumb".

In her court papers, Katie accuses her former boss of engaging in "a pattern of behaviour.... that would be described as peculiar in the context of a manager/subordinate relationship" and claims that when she lodged a complaint with her employer about his behaviour, any opportunity of the promotion she had been promised was suddenly off the table.

Katie is now suing the gym for her denied opportunity to progress professionally, and for the sexual harrassment she endured in the workplace, which obviously is unacceptable for anybody to have to go through. It remains to be seen what the legal outcome will be.

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